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2:1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words and hide my commandments within thee,
2:2  so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to understanding;
2:3  yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
2:4  if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasure,
2:5  then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
2:6  For the Lord giveth wisdom; out of His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
2:7  He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous; He is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
2:8  He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of His saints.
2:9  Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity, yea, every good path.
2:10  When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,
2:11  discretion shall preserve thee, and understanding shall keep thee,
2:12  to deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from men that speaketh froward things,
2:13  who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
2:14  who rejoice to do evil and delight in the frowardness of the wicked,
2:15  whose ways are crooked and who are froward in their paths.
2:16  Wisdom will deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger, who flattereth with her words,
2:17  who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;
2:18  for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
2:19  None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
2:20  Thus thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
2:21  For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;
2:22  but the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.